Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo arrives Makurdi.Received by Governor Samuel Ortom on the Makurdi Airport.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday denied claims that the killings in Benue had been deliberate to remove the individuals of the North-central state.
Osibajo stated this throughout a stakeholders assembly on the Benue Government House, Makurdi.
He stated the anger and disappointment expressed by the individuals on the assembly was “right and justified” however assured them of presidency’s resolve to guard them.
He additionally dismissed the non secular colouration hooked up to the killings, saying ”persecutions have at all times been with Christians and it's the obligation of Christians to cease it.”
” The gospel of Jesus can't be killed by anyone; it isn't fragile or written on a piece of paper,” he stated.
The vp additionally condoled with the Catholic Church for the assault on its monks and worshippers at Saint Ignatius Parish Mbalom, the place 18 individuals together with two catholic monks had been killed by suspected armed herdsmen.